The Christian — Faith, Hope, and Charity

Happy the heart where graces reign

No. 674
Words Isaac Watts.
Singing key F major
4 stanzas

Sung to MEAR (hymn 889)

Words

Happy the heart where graces reign,Where love inspires the breast:Love is the brightest of the train,And strengthens all the rest.

Knowledge—alas! 'tis all in vain,And all in vain our fear;Our stubborn sins will fight and reign,If love be absent there.

This is the grace that lives and singsWhen faith and hope shall cease;'Tis this shall strike our joyful stringsIn the sweet realms of bliss.

Before we quite forsake our clay,Or leave this dark abode,The wings of love bear us away,To see our smiling God.

About this hymn

As printed Words only. As printed: hymn number «674» (large) with the reference line «889, 596, 446.» in italics beside it (sing to the tune of hymn 889, 596 or 446); four stanzas in the lower half of the left column of p. 219, below hymn 673's «James Montgomery.», «Isaac Watts.» in italics at the end. The first word «HAPPY» is set in a capital and small capitals. The print sets a thin space before «:», «;» and «!» («breast :», «alas !», «fear ;», «cease ;»); it is closed up here. Lines 2 and 4 of each stanza are indented in the print. Spelling, punctuation, the dash and capitals are the print's. No meter is printed (the text is C. M., 8.6.8.6, like the three tunes of the reference line).